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end.

It was a memory leak waiting to happen. He didn't care. It was 1:30 AM.

He recompiled the entire QuickReport source with this patch injected. The E2003 vanished. But then came the avalanche: E2010 Incompatible types: 'HPEN' and 'TFont' in QRExpImg.pas . The image exporter was trying to use GDI pens on GDI+ fonts. UPD’s updated TMetafile handling had stricter type checking.

type TQRPrinterHack = class(TQRPrinter) private function GetCanvasHack: TCanvas; public property CanvasHack: TCanvas read GetCanvasHack; end; Quickreport For Delphi 11 Alexandria UPD

At 12:03 AM, Marco opened the source. Not the application source—the QuickReport source. He’d kept a copy of the full source code for QuickReport 6, a relic from the CodeGear era. He dropped the QR6 folder into his project’s search path, bypassing the precompiled DCUs provided by the GetIt package manager.

Marco Santini stared at the Delphi 11 Alexandria IDE, the blue glow of his monitor the only light in the office at 11:47 PM. The deadline for the accounting module’s reporting suite was 8:00 AM. And QuickReport—the venerable, crusty, old-warhorse reporting engine—was throwing a fit.

function TQRPrinterHack.GetCanvasHack: TCanvas; begin // Delphi 11 UPD changed TPrinter.Canvas to strict private. // We bypass using the original Win32 DC handle. Result := TCanvas.Create; try Result.Handle := GetDC(Printer.Handle); except Result.Free; raise; end; end; It was 1:30 AM

Marco smiled. He loved this part. He opened WinApi.Printer.hpp and the new Vcl.Printers.pas . He saw the change: the Canvas property was now strictly protected. He couldn't inherit from TQRPrinter to fix it—the damage was deep.

He commented out the entire DrawText block. He replaced it with TTextMetric calls that were deprecated in Windows 10 but still worked . He added compiler directives:

He ran the application. He clicked "Print Preview." But then came the avalanche: E2010 Incompatible types:

Marco picked up a red marker, crossed it out, and wrote underneath: "No. We can't even migrate it to a patch."

Or he could do what real Delphi developers do: